Sentences with phrase «of urban detritus»

In 2013, Chagas won for his country the Golden Lion for best national pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale with his exhibition, Luanda, Encyclopedic City, comprised of twenty - three stacks of mass - produced photographs of urban detritus drawn from the artist's series Found Not Taken (2009 — 13).

Through a repurposing of urban detritus, this New York — based artist explores the semiotics of politics, economics, labor, and migration in his sculptural installations.

Drew's abstract prints reimagine the artist's sculptures of urban detritus — and also resemble topographic maps, starry nights, and dense cityscapes.

At first, I can't work out what it is, and then it becomes apparent that it's the stripped down frame of a park bench: a piece of urban detritus.

Coolquitt has frequently utilized scavenged materials to create Apollonian, totemic, energy staffs, or entropic, pathos - infused gatherings of urban detritus.

Not exact matches

Many of my early projects like Chance City were inspired by urban detritus.

This relocation marked a shift from the gritty urban detritus that had been the basis of much of the earlier work to a rhapsodic embrace of color and geometric abstraction in a wholly new vernacular language.

His referential and detritus - like objects derive their meaning from a discourse based on everyday objects and the urban environment and the meanings they acquire inside a number of socio - cultural contexts that the artist explores.

Each piece loses its way in the midst of the various urban detritus and abstract illumination cast from a multi-channel video work (Period, 2018).

In 1959, Mallary took a teaching position at Pratt and moved to New York, where he would combine the brooding weight and density of the New Mexico abstractions with ephemeral urban detritus, creating works that established him among the core artists exploring junk art, such as John Chamberlain, Richard Stankiewicz, Claes Oldenburg and Lee Bontecou.

Dubuffet believed children, the uneducated and the naive are able to immediately «hit the bull's - eye» and arrive at something visionary in their art making.The detritus and random objects of urban streets represented a diminishing horizon, for him, between high and low art.

In this week's roundup, Mark Bradford repurposes South L.A. urban detritus, Allora & Calzadilla perform at MoMA, Raymond Pettibon goes hard in the paint, artists have a couple of firsts, and much...

In 1959 Mallary took a teaching position at Pratt and moved to New York, where he would combine the brooding weight and density of the New Mexico abstractions with ephemeral urban detritus.

Incorporating modified detritus — billboard paper, photomechanical reproductions, wrapping and carbon paper — in its densely accreted, silver - gray surfaces, Ghost Money is a rich representation of urban life that pays particular attention to the «underbelly» economies that are interlaced with social injustices.

Born in Los Angeles, Mark Bradford collages pieces of detritus — found billboards, logos, hairdresser's endpapers — scavenged from the streets of southern California, which together snap into abstracted urban grid paintings and other evocative compositions.

Her expressionist paintings are inspired by a wide variety of art historical references, from Situationism and Abstract Expressionism to graffiti and cartoon, and her found - object sculptures assembled from urban detritus feel more playful and light than their material constituents.

Reflecting on Hammons's mid-1970s sculptures made with grease, bones, hair and rubbish, curator Lowery S. Sims wrote in Art As a Verb (1988): «[He] confronts our commodity - predicated notion of the dear, the beautiful, and transforms our perception of and reception to the humble detritus of our urban society.»

Made of components that are ubiquitously Japanese, comprised of the packaging material and other detritus of urban Tokyo, they are placed leaning against the walls and columns of the gallery space at varying intervals and heights.

This urban bird's nest features black Gypsophila, dark violet Tracheliums, and white Agapanthus, as well as bits of straw and other urban detritus.

Richard Wentworth: motes to self Charlotte Poseneske: Early Works Peter Freeman, 140 Grand Street Both shows run through May 31 What's on view: A series of sparse Ab / Ex-looking minimal drawings and paintings from the 1950s and 1960s (Charlotte Poseneske); photographs of fences, grates, urban detritus made strange pinned up on the walls, and lined up on long work tables (Richard Wentworth)

«His subjects range from the roadways, urban detritus, and industrial backyards of the East Coast to the oil fields and empty terrain of Texas.

At roughly the same time, David Hammons's Higher Goals (1986) merged urban detritus with the lofty possibilities associated with basketball during the era of Michael Jordan.

Silence of the Music combines folk art, pop culture, and urban detritus in order to offer an expansive impression of the artists» unique artistic perspective and creative process.

For those growing fatigued by contemporary art's ongoing invocations of the Anthropocene and its attendant aesthetics of detritus and scorched - earth urban sprawl, Thiago Rocha Pitta's show «The First Green» offered something of a reprieve.

Likewise, his monochromatic paintings adorned with gobs of dirty, chewed gum, which reference German cities bombed in World War II, are simultaneously melancholic and comically absurd, referencing the tradition of expressionist painting through the mundane detritus of urban life.

Through economical and invasive means, the artist transforms urban detritus such as found cardboard, police barricades, and carpet remnants into bunker - like structures that retain a semblance of solidity yet convey a feeling of melancholy and gloom.

Mallary developed a unique and experimental style capturing fragile found urban detritus - discarded pieces of cardboard, wood, cloth rags, and later, Tuxedos, casting them in resin to become hard and permanent.

Employing found materials culled from urban detritus and popular media such as postcards, wallpaper, stickers, and fabric, Wesselmann executed several discrete but related series of collages that variously depict figures (both anonymous and known), interiors, and still lifes.

The transformation of everyday and urban detritus is one of Chicago - based artist Theaster Gates» (born 1973) fundamental artistic strategies.

The works in the show contain familiar elements from city landscapes, such as scaffolding, urban detritus, abandoned buildings, and public gardens, all addressing the hurried transformation of cityscapes closely related to gentrification.

The term Assemblage art was first coined by Jean Dubuffet in 1953 to denote a type of work constructed from fragments of natural, preformed or «found» objects such as household debris, urban detritus, stuffed animals - indeed any (usually recognizable) materials, large or small.

Alex Eckman - Lawn offers multi-layered collages that seem to belong to no particular time or place, while Amze Emmons presents paintings of oft - overlooked urban detritus, and Jason Andrew Turner unravels conventional representational painting into something more abstract and elemental.

Richard Haden's beaten - up metal fender appears to be a piece of common urban detritus, but upon closer look - or glimpsing a clue - one discovers that it has been carefully constructed of wood, paint and epoxy.

Susan Smith's timeless constructions, on view at Junior Projects through February 27, fuse the detritus of urban demolition with a Minimalist aesthetic, making order out of chaos and wittily evoking the Modern masters of De Stjil and later monochromists, such as Robert Ryman and Brice Marden.

The image is made up of «hand painted posters and commercial notices mixing contemporary urban detritus with the tradition of Chinese calligraphy,» according to the benefit catalogue.

Each artist in the exhibition transforms the detritus or overlooked objects of our daily, urban backdrop into an unfamiliar, and tantalizing new object or situation.»

Penn's still life compositions included meticulous arrangements of items - including food, bones, domestic implements, bottles, metal, urban detritus, and found objects.

Rather than paint in the conventional sense of the term, Bradford takes the detritus of urban visual culture as the conduit through which life enters art.

With Helter Skelter I, Mark Bradford puts forward a statement of heroic ambition that takes the detritus found on the streets of Los Angeles to subtly reflect on the history, social structures and lived experiences of the artist's urban environment.

Artists created charged works by juxtaposing disparate images sourced largely from popular media, such as Hannah Höch's 1930 photomontage Untitled (Large Hand Over Woman's Head), a work of layered images from magazines that speaks to the representation of women in popular culture, and Kurt Schwitters» Mz 426 Figures (1922), an assemblage of discarded newspaper and printed detritus, which evokes the urban environment in which he lived.

Phyllida Barlow's practice reflects a distinct new direction in contemporary sculpture, one concerned with urban detritus, waste, recycling and a kind of «anti-form».

Calligraphy drawn from the age of satellites beaming and technology blaring, Keith Sonnier's sculptures, urban neon and country trash, fuse the detritus of popular western culture with the suggestiveness of eastern imagery.

There amongst the discarded detritus of modern urban decay he was to find the source material and inspiration for his monumental and emotionally charged work.

Salvaged from billboards, telephone poles, and the supply drawers of beauty salons, this humble urban detritus resonates with cultural meaning and a sense of place.

Incorporating various urban detritus, from cassette tapes, guitars and bins to car tyres, Lucy highlights the wastefulness of consumerism.

In New Zealand, Luke Willis Thompson's project inthisholeonthisislandwhereiam (2012) has quickly become part of urban folklore: it involved taking a taxi from Hopkinson Cundy Gallery, Auckland, and driving to a seemingly abandoned old house in order to wander around it, looking at the detritus of someone's life.

These works represent detail views of the collapsed structures and reveal Mazzu's ongoing interest in urban detritus and industrial decay.

Our narrator takes us on a tour of the post-industrial canal via canoe, showcasing the accretions of cultural detritus, a motley crew of urban wildlife, both human and non-human, and improbable plans for redevelopment which have transformed this forgotten space into a material unconscious of the city.

In a constantly shifting flat plane, building and art materials, urban detritus, and domestic items make their way into Alex Hubbard's two new videos, EAT YOUR FRIENDS and BOTTOM OF THE TOP, and now on to his paintings too.

In this week's roundup, Mark Bradford repurposes South L.A. urban detritus, Allora & Calzadilla perform at MoMA, Raymond Pettibon goes hard in the paint, artists have a couple of firsts, and much more.